The life and letters of Washington Allston . WASHINGTOJS ALLSTON 161 beautiful, the pure, and holy. How fearful then is his where thevindictive and base and sensual make the sum. * As the treefalleth, so shall it lie. . I write without order whatever comes uppermost, and con-sequently have left myself too little room to tell you all I have painted a small picture from Spenser, and a head of Bea-trice, both just sold. I shall soon proceed with the Belshazzar,then the hospital picture, and no more small pictures. Morsehas spent the summer here, and has just finished a large whole-length
The life and letters of Washington Allston . WASHINGTOJS ALLSTON 161 beautiful, the pure, and holy. How fearful then is his where thevindictive and base and sensual make the sum. * As the treefalleth, so shall it lie. . I write without order whatever comes uppermost, and con-sequently have left myself too little room to tell you all I have painted a small picture from Spenser, and a head of Bea-trice, both just sold. I shall soon proceed with the Belshazzar,then the hospital picture, and no more small pictures. Morsehas spent the summer here, and has just finished a large whole-length portrait of a beautiful girl wandering amid the ruins of aGothic abbey. Tis well drawn, composed, and colored, andwould make a figure even at Somerset House. I always thoughthe had a great deal in him, if he would only bring it out by ap-plication, which you will be glad to hear he at length has ac-quired. Circumstances made him industrious, and being con-tinued, his industry has grown a habit. He leaves town thisweek for Washington, w
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